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DRC
After Tractebel's preview, PowerChina to conduct its own feasibility study of Kinsuka power station

Before it starts building the hydroelectric plant, the Chinese giant wants to verify the findings of a report conducted a year ago by international engineering firm Tractebel for its partner, Great Lakes Energy.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 02.12.2019

DRC
Banro loses battle on the ground but wins the war against its shareholders

The embattled Canadian group Banro Corp has had to freeze operations at its Namoya gold mine in DRC due to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

DRC
Gryphon Advisors helps Katanga Mining pay off its debt to Glencore

Katanga Mining, which launched a funding round among its shareholders to reimburse the $4.4 billion it owns its parent company Glencore, has hired Gryphon Advisors to help make sure things run smoothly.

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

DRC
Patrick Kitelo unites Brazilian miners with homeland

Congolese pastor Patrick Kitelo Matezolo registered Brazil Congo Mineraçao in [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

DRC
Wanbao and Managem plan to start copper production at Pumpi by April

The joint venture operating the Katanga copper project Pumpi expects [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

DRC
CATL adds a brick to AVZ's lithium empire in Manono

AVZ Minerals's latest shareholder, Chinese firm Yibin Tianyi Lithium Industry [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

Cameroon
Oriole makes a saving through mining R&D spending

London-based junior mining firm Oriole Resources' assessments of the Bibemi [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

DRC
Afai backs OECD team to analyse copper and cobalt sourcing

To complete their report on copper and cobalt supply chains [...]

Subscribers only Mining 26.11.2019

Congo, DRC
DRC expands its team to negotiate with Africa50 over Kinshasa-Brazzaville bridge

Kinshasa has advertised for a consultant to help it in its discussions aimed at setting up the legal framework of the rail-and-road bridge project.

Subscribers only Infrastructure 25.11.2019

Gabon
Santullo case Parisian arbitrators give their verdict

Officially, both sides have won! This morning, the government-controlled Gabonese newspaper L'Union was quick to qualify the arbitral ruling of [...]

Subscribers only Business 21.11.2019

Gabon
Maixent Accrombessi makes his Masonic influence felt

Tangible in Libreville since the fall of his successor Brice Laccruche, the influence of Ali Bongo's former chief of staff Maixent Accrombessi is especially keenly felt in Freemason circles.

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

Central Africa, West Africa
Europeans debate special forces deployment in Sahel behind closed doors

A meeting devoted to Operation Takuba, which will involve the deployment of several hundred members of European special forces, was [...]

Subscribers only Defence, Politics 20.11.2019

Congo
Party over as IMF hits town

Six months after securing a $448.6 million loan package from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for reasons that had more [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

Cameroon
Clock ticks down at port of Douala

The renewal of the concession having been blocked by the government, the Doula container terminal will be without an operator as of 1 January 2020.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 20.11.2019

Gabon
Sinohydro back on Meridiam's payroll

The infrastructure firm Meridiam has selected Sinohydro to build the Kinguélé dam, for which it has the concession. The Chinese firm has longstanding ties with the presidential family.

Subscribers only Infrastructure, Business 20.11.2019

Gabon
Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema resurrects Operation Mamba

Only just appointed as the new head of the special services, the intelligence arm of the Republican Guard (WAN 810), [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

Central African Republic
Nicolas Tiangaye seeks to drum up support in Congo

The former prime minister to presidents François Bozizé and Michel Djotodia from 2013 to 2014, 63-year-old Nicolas Tiangaye, was received [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

DRC, France
Emmanuel Macron to visit Kinshasa in second quarter of 2020?

During his meeting with Emmanuel Macron, the Congolese president Félix [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

DRC
ESL & Network, Felix Tshisekedi's fixer in Paris

Although no contract has yet been signed between ESL & [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 20.11.2019

DRC
Moïse Katumbi invites Gianni Infantino to Lubumbashi

The Congolese opposition leader Moïse Katumbi, who owns the Tout [...]

Subscribers only Diplomacy 20.11.2019

Gabon
Ill-gotten gains affair enters final straight

Credit where credit's due: Judge Dominique Blanc, who has taken [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

Central African Republic, Mauritania
MINUSCA's Mauritanian battalion in firing line

The Mauritanian battalion deployed within MINUSCA, the United Nations mission [...]

Subscribers only Politics 20.11.2019

Gabon
Averda counter-attacks

Having lost its rubbish collection contract in Libreville in September [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.11.2019

DRC
Discreet negotiations with IMF

During his meeting with Emmanuel Macron at the Elysée on [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.11.2019

Central Africa
Securiport sets up shop in Bangui

Ousted from Cotonou-Cadjèhoun airport (WAN 804), the US passenger screening [...]

Subscribers only Business 20.11.2019

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